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How to Choose The Right Personal Protective Equipment
OSHA’s Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Standard (29 CFR 1910.132 for General Industry) has been in place for more than a decade and remains the primary regulation governing your PPE program. General requirements of the PPE Standard cover four major activities: (1) assessment, (2) selection, (3) training, and (4) verification. Note that each activity requires a different skill set. Line managers should designate leaders whose abilities are aligned with the requirements of each of these activities; it may not be the same person for each step.
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Worker Escapes serious Injury in Trench collapse
On Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at 8:36 AM, 8 Companies of Los Angeles Firefighters, 4 LAFD Rescue Ambulances, 1 Heavy Rescue, 2 Urban Search and Rescue Units, 1 EMS Battalion Captain and 2 Battalion Chief Officer Command Teams, a total of 63 Los Angeles Fire Department personnel under the direction of Battalion Chief Craig Yoder, responded to a Trench Rescue at 2000 South Central Avenue in South Los Angeles.
Firefighters arrived quickly to discover a 33 year-old male construction worker trapped to his thighs at a construction site trench collapse.
The man had reportedly been in a 5-foot-deep, 2-foot wide by 75-foot long trench located in an open-air 20-foot subgrade location that Firefighters surmised would become the subterranean parking lot for a massive apartment building under construction.
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Arc Flash Safety
Most of industry as well as government agencies now are required to comply with OSHA regulations, but some parts of the CFR (Code of Federal Regulations) apply only to specific industries. Standards like 1910.269 have specific arc flash requirements, but it only applies to electric utilities in certain work situations.
For instance, when a utility hires an electrician to work on an office that is not in a substation or other facility blocked from public access, the electrician would fall under general OSHA standards and not the utility specific standard. This method of inclusion and exclusion opens room for interpretation, and when standards do not agree on requirements many companies are left with little guidance on which requirement to follow.
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